They had a similar model with a Kindle a few years back. I actually ordered the Kindle as soon as it was available because I knew it would sell out. Then I read the description and shit and saw that what I got was a Kindle + adware. I canceled the order and never got a Kindle. Fuck ads.
They show ads on the lock screen, but the rat's nest of baked in and locked down apps and services that feed you those ads will also be phoning home to the mothership and selling every single thing you do on your phone.
The i5 barely handles flash video. Only the i7 has the "Iris Pro" GPU. The "Iris Pro" has full support for acceleration in media applications and has "good" (still shitty) performance in games. The i5 has "HD Graphics" which is now the shit tier for Intel's parts and has very little support and terrible performance. I'm running a newer i5 and it struggles to render 1080p flash video, takes about 3 seconds to dim the screen and display a Windows 7 UAC prompt. The options for tweaking/overclocking the GPU are locked out despite parts from the prior generation having them enabled. The modern i5's built-in GPU is ASS.
One glancing mention of Bitcoin, despite it using very little bandwidth even for miners, and we get the Bitcoin logo? Storing the full block chain takes a not-insiginifcant amount of storage, but not everyone needs to do that (though they should, in my opinion, as that's half of the POINT of Bitcoin). However, the full blockchain only needs a small amount of additional storage (and thus bandwidth) as it grows. It can take a while to download the whole thing when you're first starting, but once you have it you only download the new blocks as they're mined. It's not an issue.
Well, you could step up to the i5 version, 8 GB of RAM, and a 256 GB SSD. Incremental upgrades in each category, can't be that much...
$1299
Wait, only the i7 has the good (good for Intel) GPU and the i5 has the GPU that barely handles flash video? I guess I'd need to go to the i7, what's another $100-$150, right?
$1599
If I'm spending that much I'll need to sell my desktop, monitor, etc. and use it as my main PC. Need to max out the storage. Wait, why is 256 GB the largest option? Let's at least bump the RAM up to the 16 GB my 5.5 year old PC had the day it was built...
$1799
Oh, now the larger storage options are available. With 1 TB it costs...
$2699
Well, at least the bleeding is over. Oh wait, the keyboard is sold separately?
$2798
Oh look! A money-saving bundle!
$2798 with a free stylus and neoprene sleeve. And I guess now a free Xbone?
That's not true at all. If it were, travel through space would be impossible. You can't postulate that the universe started at a single point in space (or single point of space) and then wave your hands about and say "expansion" to come to the conclusion that all reference frames place the observer at the center of space.
Spacetime is a physical construct and if it's infinite there is no big bang, no expansion, etc., and it can't be generated as we traverse it. If it's finite, it can be bounded. If it's generated as we traverse it, then at any given point in time it is finite and it can be defined and bounded. It will not change faster than we can traverse it (or walking down to the store would be impossible).
It is absolutely possible for an observer to take a step back and see a bigger picture, though not the complete picture, and approximate a center based on mass distribution or something similar. Of course everything will be bound by our light cone. But an observer being at the center of their own reference frame does not prevent the observer from analyzing other reference frames.
Galaxies have centers, as does the known universe. Space expanding has no impact on this fact. Define the boundaries universe at any single point in time and you can define a center. (or at least the center of a bounding spheroid). That center may change as space boils and expands, but you can travel toward it and as you get closer, recalculate it.
What fantasy are you living in? The "9 to 5" job has been 8 to 5 for ages, with a 1 hour lunch break and two 15 minute breaks that no one takes. Most people get up at 7 and get home at 6 or later.
Legal perhaps, but not a valid reason. It's it's completely anti-democratic unless your petition has the support of more people than voted to stay, and all the people signing the petition were verified as being eligible to vote.
It's the equivalent of losing a contest and then continually shouting "I want a do over!" or "No fair, I wasn't ready!" or "Best N out of 2N-1!!" until you get the outcome you want. It's pathetic, grade school, childish shit.
If a petition was signed by every person who voted against leaving the EU, and it was verified that every signature was from a UK citizen who was eligible to vote, it still wouldn't be enough to justify another vote. The people who voted to leave outnumber them.
The young people are bitching and moaning, but they don't fucking realize how the old people they hate just acted in the best interests of the young little shits, ensuring they have a chance at a future.
A lot of people have been on radio, on TV and on social media saying that the voted as a protest or not really expecting leave to win, and are now regretting it.
So fucking what? The vote was valid. There's no legal reason to overturn it or attempt to overturn it by holding another vote.
Further, you absolutely cannot quantify "a lot", nor can you quantify the corresponding amount of people who voted to remain in the EU despite not being informed on the issue, regretting it, etc.
And further, you do not get to decide how "informed" someone should be before they vote on something. That always leads to "informed" meaning "indoctrinated".
I can confirm that the official guides/tutorials are a complete fucking mess. Their IDE is bloated and unwieldy. The emulator is slower than a one-legged cricket in January.
Writing C/C++ is easy. Reading C/C++ after it has been written is hard. Writing secure C/C++ is very hard. Reading someone else's C/C++ is nearly impossible, therefore you can copy-pasta it assuming it is secure.
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But what if one of the ads turns out to be for a special oven that can be used to burn children alive ... AND YOUR CHILD IS STARRING IN THE AD!!!!
Do I get royalties each time they run the ad?
They had a similar model with a Kindle a few years back. I actually ordered the Kindle as soon as it was available because I knew it would sell out. Then I read the description and shit and saw that what I got was a Kindle + adware. I canceled the order and never got a Kindle. Fuck ads.
They show ads on the lock screen, but the rat's nest of baked in and locked down apps and services that feed you those ads will also be phoning home to the mothership and selling every single thing you do on your phone.
The i5 barely handles flash video. Only the i7 has the "Iris Pro" GPU. The "Iris Pro" has full support for acceleration in media applications and has "good" (still shitty) performance in games. The i5 has "HD Graphics" which is now the shit tier for Intel's parts and has very little support and terrible performance. I'm running a newer i5 and it struggles to render 1080p flash video, takes about 3 seconds to dim the screen and display a Windows 7 UAC prompt. The options for tweaking/overclocking the GPU are locked out despite parts from the prior generation having them enabled. The modern i5's built-in GPU is ASS.
Fuck Adazon.
One glancing mention of Bitcoin, despite it using very little bandwidth even for miners, and we get the Bitcoin logo?
Storing the full block chain takes a not-insiginifcant amount of storage, but not everyone needs to do that (though they should, in my opinion, as that's half of the POINT of Bitcoin). However, the full blockchain only needs a small amount of additional storage (and thus bandwidth) as it grows. It can take a while to download the whole thing when you're first starting, but once you have it you only download the new blocks as they're mined. It's not an issue.
$899 isn't too expensive...
Core m3, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD
Well, you could step up to the i5 version, 8 GB of RAM, and a 256 GB SSD. Incremental upgrades in each category, can't be that much...
$1299
Wait, only the i7 has the good (good for Intel) GPU and the i5 has the GPU that barely handles flash video? I guess I'd need to go to the i7, what's another $100-$150, right?
$1599
If I'm spending that much I'll need to sell my desktop, monitor, etc. and use it as my main PC. Need to max out the storage. Wait, why is 256 GB the largest option? Let's at least bump the RAM up to the 16 GB my 5.5 year old PC had the day it was built...
$1799
Oh, now the larger storage options are available. With 1 TB it costs...
$2699
Well, at least the bleeding is over. Oh wait, the keyboard is sold separately?
$2798
Oh look! A money-saving bundle!
$2798 with a free stylus and neoprene sleeve. And I guess now a free Xbone?
WHAT A DEAL!
That's not true at all. If it were, travel through space would be impossible. You can't postulate that the universe started at a single point in space (or single point of space) and then wave your hands about and say "expansion" to come to the conclusion that all reference frames place the observer at the center of space.
Spacetime is a physical construct and if it's infinite there is no big bang, no expansion, etc., and it can't be generated as we traverse it.
If it's finite, it can be bounded. If it's generated as we traverse it, then at any given point in time it is finite and it can be defined and bounded. It will not change faster than we can traverse it (or walking down to the store would be impossible).
It is absolutely possible for an observer to take a step back and see a bigger picture, though not the complete picture, and approximate a center based on mass distribution or something similar. Of course everything will be bound by our light cone. But an observer being at the center of their own reference frame does not prevent the observer from analyzing other reference frames.
Backward time travel is impossible because it is inevitable that eventually it is used to prevent the discovery of backward time travel.
Galaxies have centers, as does the known universe. Space expanding has no impact on this fact. Define the boundaries universe at any single point in time and you can define a center. (or at least the center of a bounding spheroid). That center may change as space boils and expands, but you can travel toward it and as you get closer, recalculate it.
The trick is to tell them you don't have a landline phone. You fill out a survey by hand and mail it back at the end of the reporting period.
No yesterday it was 3 hours and 15 minutes. Game of Thrones was 15 minutes longer than usual.
What fantasy are you living in?
The "9 to 5" job has been 8 to 5 for ages, with a 1 hour lunch break and two 15 minute breaks that no one takes.
Most people get up at 7 and get home at 6 or later.
Legal perhaps, but not a valid reason. It's it's completely anti-democratic unless your petition has the support of more people than voted to stay, and all the people signing the petition were verified as being eligible to vote.
It's the equivalent of losing a contest and then continually shouting "I want a do over!" or "No fair, I wasn't ready!" or "Best N out of 2N-1!!" until you get the outcome you want. It's pathetic, grade school, childish shit.
If a petition was signed by every person who voted against leaving the EU, and it was verified that every signature was from a UK citizen who was eligible to vote, it still wouldn't be enough to justify another vote. The people who voted to leave outnumber them.
The young people are bitching and moaning, but they don't fucking realize how the old people they hate just acted in the best interests of the young little shits, ensuring they have a chance at a future.
A lot of people have been on radio, on TV and on social media saying that the voted as a protest or not really expecting leave to win, and are now regretting it.
So fucking what? The vote was valid. There's no legal reason to overturn it or attempt to overturn it by holding another vote.
Further, you absolutely cannot quantify "a lot", nor can you quantify the corresponding amount of people who voted to remain in the EU despite not being informed on the issue, regretting it, etc.
And further, you do not get to decide how "informed" someone should be before they vote on something. That always leads to "informed" meaning "indoctrinated".
No, as people get older they get wiser and vote more conservatively.
Too bad that doesn't support all the features of DisplayPort.
Apple Display Connector lololol
No, it isn't.
Uh, gun ownership and use is a right. It applies to civilians. It's a civil right.
We did a thorough investigation, and we didn't find a liberal bias.
Biased group looks at self, finds no bias.
I can confirm that the official guides/tutorials are a complete fucking mess.
Their IDE is bloated and unwieldy.
The emulator is slower than a one-legged cricket in January.
Writing C/C++ is easy.
Reading C/C++ after it has been written is hard.
Writing secure C/C++ is very hard.
Reading someone else's C/C++ is nearly impossible, therefore you can copy-pasta it assuming it is secure.